Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] Request for openhackware.git mirror

[Andreas Färber]

Am 03.03.2014 19:42, schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland:
> On 03/03/14 18:31, Andreas Färber wrote:
> 
>>> Am I missing something from the build in order for the final link to
>>> complete correctly?
>>
>> Hm, repository looks okay, and I didn't run into this yet. Possibly you
>> are using different binutils?
>>
>> Presumably you did try make clean CROSS_COMPILE=... :)
>>
>> I chose not to apply one hunk from Rene Rebe since not needed here.
>> Maybe the above .rodata.str1.4 would end up in .rodata this way?
>>
>> Make it link at al.
>>
>>    - Rene Rebe<address@hidden>
>>
>> --- OpenHackWare-release-0.4/src/main.ld       2005-03-31
>> 09:23:33.000000000 +0200
>> +++ OpenHackWare-release-0.4-hacked/src/main.ld        2008-05-06
>> 11:23:29.000000000 +0200
>> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
>>           _sdata_end = . ;
>>           . = ALIGN(4) ;
>>           _ro_start = . ;
>> -        .rodata    : { *(.rodata) }>  bios
>> +        .rodata    : { *(.rodata*) }>  bios
>>           _ro_end = . ;
>>           . = ALIGN(4) ;
>>           _RTAS_start = .;
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andreas
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> That patch definitely helps as it reduces the error to just:
> 
> powerpc-elf-ld: .objs/main.out section .text.startup will not fit in
> region start
> powerpc-elf-ld: section .text [0000000005800400 -> 0000000005812e23]
> overlaps section .text.startup [0000000005800054 -> 00000000058006d7]
> powerpc-elf-ld: region start overflowed by 728 bytes
> 
> So if I then apply the same trick to the .text section (patch attached)
> then I get a successful link and an output image.

Mark, can you sign off .text part of the patch please for me to pick up?

Andreas

> The output image does
> execute under QEMU, although for all of the CD images I have it reports
> "ERROR: Found no boot partition!". Do you have pointers to any ISOs that
> can boot from the resulting image?
> 
> FWIW my cross-compile setup is based upon binutils 2.19.
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.